Wake Tom (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 176 pp., illustrations, bibliography. some cover scuffing. Contents: The Johor Archives and the Kangchu System 1844-1910 / Trocki; Raffles and the rajas / Wake; Evidence of the contemporary existence of two Kedah sites / Treloar & Fabris; Postulated late Cainozoic high sea levels / Haile; The Palang concept extended / Harrisson; Traditional Islamic schools in Kelantan / Winzeler; Stones and the Maloh / King; The evolution of land administration in the Malay states / Wilson.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Circa 1909. Good condition. Red card wraps. Gilt tile to cover states "Plates and Diagrams to Accompany Ainsley's Engineers' Manual". B/w folding diagrams. Covers grubby, spine creased, corners rubbed. Plates present, one is torn with some loss and piece detached. Scattered foxing. Red ink annotation to many pages. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Publisher's original finely woven burgundy cloth over thin limp card wrap covers, blocked and lettered in gilt. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 39 subjects for examination in rough working drawing. In each case a scale drawing is required to be submitted with a question paper to be completed and signed. Each question has, on the facing page, a lithographed fold-out sheet of a completed drawing of marine steam-engine components by T. Wake as a pattern to be copied. Construction lines and measurements are shown. The exercise then requires calculations to be made from the drawing and written in. The errata sheet includes the information that Chief Engineers have 6 hours to complete the work to B.O.T. standard. Title page signed 'Thomas H. Scott, S/S Cotswold Range, 3rd Engineer'. The front end paper bears his address in Jarrow-on-Tyne. Greatly used and some sheets of drawings not well folded, else a good copy in well thumbed and lived-with condition. Scarce. Member of the P.B.F.A. DRAWING & CRAFTSMANSHIP.